The easiest way, make a backup of your site, restore it to localhost by Kickstart.

Both these utilities are found on akeebabackup.com (Akeeba Backup is found on the JED - both free and pro versions).

I use WAMPServer not XAMPP so can't specifically help with that.

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--------------------------------------------------------------A Murray
Millennium Falcon - it's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs! The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.

webdongle wrote:Wamp is better imho because you can switch php on the fly

Yes, agreed I found other "AMP"s difficult to update PHP or Mysql or anything - without wiping out entire databases and sites (even though I had backups) but with WAMP, it just installs updates of the individual components, or even the utility itself. Very easy.

Regards,
--------------------------------------------------------------A Murray
Millennium Falcon - it's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs! The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.